Click here to download a free, standards-based, teacher-approved curriculum guide for For the Love of Music. This guide includes creative art projects, hands-on musical games, and engaging history lessons for elementary and middle school students. It features lessons on mapping the Mozart's musical tour of Europe, writing timelines of Maria Anna Mozart's life as if she had been alive today, linking primary source letters written by the Mozart family and friends to scenes in For the Love of Music, and more.

Music Art Projects

Click here to learn about fun music projects and sound experiments
you can do at home!

Author Questions

How did your idea for this book originate?

What research did you do to write For the Love of Music?

What most surprised you during your research?

Why do you think Maria Anna's story is an important story to tell?

What experience do you have with music or
as a musician?

If you could travel back in time and ask Maria Anna one question, what would you ask?